How to Protect Your Home from Damage During a Move in Little Rock

01/29/2018

Moving
between residences in Little Rock is a sizable project often requiring
a lot of planning and
coordination. Most people would rather box up their own stuff from emptying drawers
to carefully wrapping and labeling the cables
from the entertainment center, whereas when it comes to the bulky
stuff, we usually want a little
bit of help. In fact, one of the biggest
dangers involved in moving is scratching
up either the home you are moving from or
the home you're moving into with bulky
furniture pieces like bed frames, cabinets, and mirrors. Going around corners or through doorways is especially
hazardous and there is frequently a few visible scratches by the
time you and your friends get the furniture where you want it.
If you want to save a little cash
on putty and paint and/or your security deposit, listen
to some advice from experienced
movers and learn how to protect your home from the
dangers of moving large furniture.

Disassembly and Reassembly

The
initial step to damage-free relocation
is an ability to take things
apart. Bedframes have always been a challenge to fit around
doorways, up hallways, and especially in the staircase. They are frequently
solid and heavy to give stable bed
support and many have nice head and foot boards that you'd also rather keep un-scuffed on the
journey. You might be surprised how many items in your home can be easily disassembled and put back together
including bookshelves, the entertainment center, and many cabinets. Even
dressers, which usually stay in one piece, are easier to maneuver if you remove the drawers first.

In
many cases, the easiest method
to keep both your furniture and walls undamaged is to just
disassemble it, move it in
pieces, and put it back together in the room
of your choice. Just make sure to keep the screws, nuts, and bolts in a labeled
bag that can be found when it's needed again.
If you are not comfortable with some basic tools, a
professional mover will be glad to help with
the disassembly and
reassembly
for you.

Moving Pads

Many
times a big item cannot
be disassembled or you have a reason to leave it put together for the move. As
we discussed above, when you're managing bulky pieces of furniture often framed by wood and
metal, your walls, corners and even the banisters of your stairwells
are at risk. Professional movers recognize
that rather than trying to achieve a
perfect lack of scratches and scrapes, which can be
nearly impossible, a good
answer is simply to protect the areas you are
moving through.

Moving
pads are essentially large sturdy blankets
that can be draped or pinned over the walls, corners, stair
railings, and other aspects of your house
that would get scraped when large
furniture is moving through. This is a extraordinarily
simple trick that fixes an
age-old problem. Protect with moving pads when taking
large objects through tight spaces and anywhere you are
distressed about during the moving process.

Carpet Covers

Lastly, the quality of your
carpets should not be determined by the amount of
activity during a move. Most residences have a reasonable
amount of daily traffic, family members and pets
walking back and forth between the living room and kitchen and bathroom several times a day. When you are in the process of moving,
the number of trips across your carpet, often in
big sturdy shoes, increases a lot.

To
keep the dust and grime at bay and reduce the amount of wear and tear it sustains
from the constant walking back and forth boxing and moving stuff,
put down a padded carpet cover to give
temporary floor protection. This allows you to move freely, work
with bulky furniture, and get
things down from the attic or up from the basement without worrying about a
major carpet cleaning afterward.

Here
at A-1
Freeman Moving,
we're devoted to taking care of not
only your stuff but the residence
you are moving out of and into, as well. With some simple tricks learned from decades of assisting
people move from place to place, it's commonplace
to protect the walls, banisters, carpets, and doorways of every
home no matter how big your furniture may be.

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